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Sunday, June 11, 2017

Pro-Trump Hate Groups and Neo-Nazis Hold Anti-Muslim Rallies

As I have noted before, growing up my parents always warned us children that we would be labeled by the company that we kept and that it was incumbent upon us to avoid bad company. Seemingly, many Trump voters missed this lesson as they allied themselves with some truly foul and horrible people. Over this weekend, as The Daily Beast reports, an alliance of Trump supporting hate groups, Neo-Nazis and white supremacists are holding anti-Muslim rallies in 30 cities. It goes without saying that many of these people similarly hate LGBT individuals and anyone else who differs from them. Sadly, they are the true face of today's Republican party no matter what Republican apologists try to claim to the contrary. Here are story highlights about those with whom "good Republicans" have climbed into bed with:

Donald Trump is
Tinder for bigots. His campaign and presidency has helped countless bigots hook
up with each other, and we will see another example of that this Saturday with
anti-Muslim rallies scheduled in nearly 30
locations across America.

These rallies
are organized by ACT for America!, an organization founded by Hanah Kahwagi,
who goes by the alias of Brigitte Gabriel, and who has
preached that practicing Muslims “cannot be a loyal citizen to the United
States of America.” As Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) spokesperson Heidi
Beirich explained, “ACT for America is the nation’s largest anti-Muslim hate
group.”

But ACT is now
teaming up with Neo Nazis and white supremacists for these upcoming rallies.
For example, Saturday’s rally in Arkansas “is being organized by well known
Neo-Nazi Billy Roper,” Beirich noted. As the SPLC website details, Roper has
been working hand in hand with ACT to organize this
event, including joining a recent conference call with ACT leaders. Roper, who
boasts of being the son and grandson of Klansmen, not only joined the neo-Nazi
National Alliance, but also Council of Conservative Citizens which, per the SPLC, “served as Charleston
terrorist Dylann Roof’s gateway into white nationalism.”

And in New York
City, the lead speaker at the ACT anti-Muslim rally is Gavin McInnes, a man referred
to by some as a hipster white nationalist. In reality he’s just as vile as the
older generation of bigots. McInnes, a co-founder of VICE who left years ago,
has written articles for the white supremacist publication VDARE, where he has denigrated Muslims as well as Asians.

He’s
also an apologist for white supremacist terrorism. Just a week ago he penned an
article titled “The myth of White terrorism” in which he
claimed that white supremacist killings are as low as “death from spider
bites.”

But to say
McInnes, an avid Trump supporter, is simply a white supremacist who hates
Muslims would be unfair. He’s much more despicable than that. McInnes has also
blamed women for domestic violence, tweeting: “Every guy I've ever known to be
involved in a ‘domestic’ was the result of some cunt trying to ruin his life.”

And he has stoked anti-Semitism with his YouTube video, “10 Things I Hate About
Jews,” where among other things he slams Jews for not being grateful enough
that America defeated the Nazis and claiming that Jews have “a real hatred for
white males.”ACT is claiming
its anti-Muslim rallies, intentionally scheduled for Ramadan, are actually
anti-Sharia rallies. Of course the reality is that sharia law is never coming
to the United States.

In reality the
only people advocating for laws based on their religious text in the United
States are conservative Christians. For example, Mike Huckabee has called to “amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards.”
Rick Santorum also pushed for Christian sharia law declaring in 2012 while running for
President that "our civil laws have to comport with a higher law: God's
law." And of course Mike Pence has invoked the Bible as the basis to
discriminate against the LGBT community.

I wish we could
dismiss ACT as nothing more than hateful bigots on the fringes of society but
we would be making a mistake. This hate group has numerous ties to Trump and
his administration. ACT founder Gabriel was recently welcomed to the Trump
White House with open arms.

ACT and the
Trump administration are intertwined. Last year, Trump’s CIA Director Mike
Pompeo proudly accepted ACT’s National Security Eagle Award. Sebastian Gorka, a
Trump national security "expert," has spoken before many ACT
chapters. Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn was on ACT’s Board
of Directors. And Steve Bannon, while editor of Brietbart, provided Gabriel a place to spew anti-Muslim hate for years.

But now ACT is
teaming up with not only the Trump administration but with neo-Nazis and white
supremacist to demonize Muslims.

If you believe
in an America that’s welcoming of diverse faiths and races, then please stand
up and speak out. We need your voices to help drown out those spewing hate.

I can assure
that if ACT is successful in its goal of marginalizing Muslims, it will next
target other minority groups because its coalition of hate will demand it. And
by the time they come for your community, there may be “no one left to speak”
for you.

Again, when you vote Republican, this is who you have chosen as your political allies. For those who do this, don't go to church and play all pious and godly since your vote for the GOP will clearly underscore your hypocrisy.

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